PCLOB Report Finds FBI Doesn't Buy Real-Time Location Data
The FBI doesn’t purchase “continuous or ‘real time’ location data from any phone, internet, or electronic service provider,” the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board said Thursday in a report on the bureau’s open source information practices.
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The board is operating with one member, Republican Beth Williams, due to President Donald Trump’s firing of Democratic members (see 2509150052).
The board report considered both public-facing data and data purchased from third parties. The FBI relies on public records, news reporting, public social media and commercial databases in the “early stages of counterterrorism investigations,” PCLOB said.
The bureau mitigates risks by “including privacy and civil liberties protections in all phases of its use of open source information,” the board said. “The report concludes that the FBI will need to continually evaluate the privacy and civil liberties impacts of new tools and datasets as access to aggregated open source information continues to evolve.”